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My challenge is nearly here…
I have blogged about this before on previous posts:
- My 2010 Challenge – What have I agreed to :-/
- First serious training session for 3 peaks challenge
- First injury during training
- Weekend training, Scafell Pike
But now the time is getting closer and closer, the challenge is only 18 days away and I am starting to get really nervous! It doesn’t seem two minutes ago since I checked the site and it was 90 days to go! Where does the time go, I have been training hard and working my self up for the challenge, my feelings at the minute? Scared, Nervous, Excited and most of all really looking forward to it.
Friday 14th will see our team travel up to Fort William in Scotland to complete our final training camp before the event on the 24th. We are climbing Ben Nevis Friday afternoon and once again on Saturday morning before heading home. Ben Nevis is the only one we haven’t yet climbed and as usual I will be taking my camera to get some amazing shots.
Together as a team we have worked extremely well together and made some great friends, even though we work in the same company, I would have probably never met and go to know the guys who are doing the challenge, it also seems as the days grow closer that it will be the end of something, although knowing the guys completing the challenge they will already be on with the preparation for next years challenge!
Donations, we have had some excellent donations to date and we have already reached £5898.13 inc gift aid which will be matched by our company making us to our £10,000 target, although there is still lots more time to donate and also we have competitions running which will bring in extra funds and also the offline sponsorship money to tally up and add to the final total J
I will probably post another blog post about the Ben Nevis walk after we complete it and then I probably wont blog about it again until after the event.
If you would like to donate then please check out http://lv3peaks.co.uk
Thank you for reading.
First injury during training :-(
Well it was bound to happen sooner or later and Thursday it did happen, I was out walking with my 2 dogs doing the 4 mile walk that I do every night preparing myself for the 3 peaks challenge that we are under taking in May 2010.
I was walking around the usual route with my 2 Miniature Schnauzers (Archie & Dylan) and all was going well, I managed to complete the walk in less than 50 minutes and the route also includes some up and down hills to make it a little more difficult.
I got home and had a hot bath and then the morning after….OUCH! Boy did my ankle hurt, turns out I have injured my Achilles tendon or as I like to call it “Hercules tendon” 
Today it seems to be a little better and hopefully I will be out walking again tomorrow evening when I get back in from the office.
Weekend training didnt go to plan
My weekend training that me and @eckafatcat were planning to do this weekend didn’t exactly go to plan and we never made it to Pen y Ghent. For one simple reason and one simple reason only. We weren’t too sure how it was going to be for our two Miniature Schnauzers (Archie & Dylan). We spent most of Friday night looking for walks on the internet and looking for places to go that would be dog friendly. Me personally wanted to go to somewhere that had water falls as I wanted to try out my new Nikon camera and wanted to get some good shots to test it out.
We looked and looked and even looked at staying over in the Lake District in a dog friendly pub that would have allowed them to stay in the hotel with us. We decided against this and decided to travel 76 miles to Ingleton, here you can find the Ingleton Waterfall Trail which is an amazing pretty easy walk where you can see 5 waterfalls in total. You can get some amazing camera shots here and when out of season very relaxing and enjoyable walk.
We got there and the first problem had already started, I got my camera out which I had charged all night long to make sure the battery was fully charged and then when I came to turn it on DISASTER! The battery was dead and when I looked the power switch was set to on, when putting the camera in it’s bag I must have turned the camera on by accident. #fail I couldn’t believe it. I ended up taking photos on my iPhone again and the gallery can be found here:
Also Link to full gallery http://rzy.me/10v
Next time I will be better prepared with the camera and will be taking multiple batteries!
The next training session will be taking place next Saturday, more updates to follow!
My weekend challenge…
Me and @eckafatcat have set ourselves a challenge for this weekend as part of my 3 peaks challenge training.
We are going to go and walk up Pen y Ghent in the Yorkshire Dales, its part of the Yorkshire 3 peaks challenge but I shall only be doing the one this weekend!
The length of the route is around 5km and should be a piece of cake compared to the Pen y Fan one which I recently did.
Photos to come, bought myself a new camera just for the challenge so I can take some decent photos rather than using my crappy iPhone camera!
More to follow!